Post flatbed load photos here V2.0

Discussion in 'Flatbed Trucking Forum' started by leftlanetruckin, Feb 18, 2014.

  1. FerrissWheel

    FerrissWheel Road Train Member

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    Despite the route, and despite the particular name on the door. It is miraculously in one piece. I don't really know how long they had it for testing or how thoroughly they tested it. I know a lot of their more experienced drivers got a hold of it as well as the terminal manager himself apparently at one point.

    But yeah, not a route i would envy by any means. I go in and out of long beach enough as is.
     
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  3. FerrissWheel

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    Recent load.
    Blade was actually secured from above by steel cables, couldnt sit it on the deck like I wanted, chain to protect it from rotating.

    Still 800 over on the rear, but ripper was against the neck soooooooo.

    Currently on a 1400 mile dead head.
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  4. D.Tibbitt

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    Could u permit it for the extra weight or did u just send her down the road and hope barney didnt have his glasses on when watching the computer screen?
     
  5. FerrissWheel

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    Apparently I'm 3,000 lb lighter than most of the fleet anyway. So they already had ordered overweight. And we just kept it that way. In reality I was under gross by a hair and just over axle. So we just put the follow-up permits slightly above gross to compensate.

    Permit lady seemed to think there wouldn't be a problem with it.

    Either way Washington didn't give it a second look and every other weigh station that I went through was closed.
     
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  6. D.Tibbitt

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    Ill never forget the time i crossed over the post fall, id scales at 91k. knew i was a little heavy but didnt think that much.. the dude was staring right at the computer . never gave me the red light , hammer the f down ! Then blew past the open scale in haugan, mt .... In Montana, im good to 85k but have to be legal on axles..... that was the last load i did before i put a scale on my trailer. Lol was dead on the money 12k steer 34k drives, thats why i thought i was good and didnt scale out...... Then...... 22.5 and 23.5 on spread. Got lucky as hell on that one.

    I like watching u equipment guys tho, looks like it would be a fun gig, but from ur posts alot of headaches involved as well sometimes . sounds like overall everything is going good with u guys. Glad to see you out from under the swift beurocracy and making it out on ur own . thats the American dream right there
     
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  7. Oscar the KW

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    I always put the blade on blocks not the deck.
     
  8. FerrissWheel

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    Well I always put something between whether it's a bucket or boom or blade or rippers you know just to keep the deck boards in good shape.
     
  9. FerrissWheel

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    Well it's one of those things I'd got to taste it bigger stuff before and they strung me along on it and it never came again. And I had kind of gotten thoroughly bored with training folks. To me there wasn't that much challenge left in flatbed at least not with what I was working with. And at least for the moment hauling equipment and stuff like that has brought some excitement back to the job and made it kind of fun again. I mean for the most part it's about the easiest I've ever had it though. Yeah it is a big adjustment running permits across the entire country. Since before I only had to deal with like five states ever.

    And at least when I get machinery or vehicles or whatever on, a lot of times loading or unloading is simply down to how quick I can drop the deck and tie it or untie it.

    "Sign here im gone"

    I mean every now and then you end up waiting on a crane or something but I still ain't nothing like the old days when I was doing refrigerated and you didn't know if he was going to pull in there for 4 hours or 24 sometimes (which while the latter was rare it did happen more than once)

    And then that big 15 wide crate that I took down to Wilmington. Me and the escort we're still out on the street when the dude came out immediately to meet me and we both rolled into the yard and they had two giant forklifts lifted up high enough for me to slip the trailer out from under it and it was an easy in and out in 20 minutes you know. Don't always go smooth but in that case they were ready for us they were in place like they were supposed to be. And for the most part that's been how everything's gone for me other than having to sit on a site waiting for the crane to call us back or something you know. Which in the last 3 months I've only really had one major wait for unload. And that's cuz it was an active construction site and they were bringing everything in in a very specific order and all that. Cuz it was going straight from trailer to roof.

    And with the way that we order stuff ahead of time as far as permits go sometimes days in advance or more we don't have so many issues with having to wait for those. Only snafu there really comes down to holiday weekends and stuff like that so far.

    I've just been enjoying every minute of it. Like I said it brought some enjoyment back to the job for me. And since the vast majority of the time I'm the one physically loading the trailer I put a lot more thought into things and I suppose that's something I've always liked.

    But yeah Swift could offer me 200k a year and I'd tell em to go pound sand. That is an environment that I can no longer tolerate. But you know working with people that actually respect what you do and what you can do. And that are actually there fighting for you, that's something you can't really trade.
     
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  10. Linte_Loco

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    That’s the beauty of certain machinery’s. It’s all on you. Not dependent on anyone except getting checked out.
     
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  11. FerrissWheel

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    Oh yeah, thats for shure. As a side effect it also cuts out any possible argument as to exactly what's about to happen. Other than "well that didn't really work"
     
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